Grants awarded

You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.

We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated August 2026). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.

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Grant recipient

Endowment for Westminster Cathedral Choir

To establish a permanent endowment fund to support the choir at Westminster Cathedral.

$6,750,000

2025

1 year

Harvard University Presidential Priorities Fund

$5,000,000

2025

1 year

Core funding

To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.

$5,000,000

2025

6 years

Collections Research Institute development

To support the refurbishment of the Wende Museum's Hawthorne building to create a world-class collections and research institute.

$4,000,000

2025

3 years

To build and protect strong legislative mechanisms for nature conservation and restoration in Europe.

To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.

$2,754,000

2025

2.5 years

The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world

To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.

$2,541,000

2025

5 years

Library Futures

To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.

$2,500,000

2025

4 years

Core support

To support Peace Brigades International's work to protect environmental defenders.

$2,472,000

2025

4 years

Digitization of Manuscripts in Southeast Asia

To support large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.

$2,260,850

2025

5 years

The IOI Fund for Network Adoption

To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.

$1,800,000

2025

4 years

Arches Endowment

To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.

$1,500,000

2025

1 year

Core support.

To support the Environmental Defenders Collaborative's work to provide funding for environmental human rights defenders.

$1,210,000

2025

4 years

Språkmuseet

To establish a language museum in Stockholm.

$1,052,520

2025

1 year

Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access

To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.

$900,160

2025

3 years

The Universal Yiddish Library

To digitize Yiddish books and make them freely available online.

$750,000

2025

3 years

Chapel restoration project

To provide essential repairs to the 13th Century former Archbishop’s palace that now serves as the Chapel for Mayfield School, ensuring its continued use and preserving the Chapel’s historic fabric.

$605,000

2025

1 year

Open Infrastructure Circle

To support the technical and legal maintenance of Creative Commons Licenses.

$600,000

2025

3 years

Five Hundred Year Archive

To support a digital archive of southern African cultural heritage to digitize endangered material and keep it freely available online.

$565,675

2025

5 years

Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America

To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

$433,630

2025

1 year

Towards the Wikimedia Endowment

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

$250,000

2025

1 year